It's interesting that some posters think the collapsing strategy is a result of the Flames game plan and not a response to the stars game plan.
The Flames aren't collapsing to the front of the net because they all remember the Xs and Os from practice, they are doing it because Dallas is flooding the zone and taking the occupied space.
You can either collapse and keep yourself between the goalie and the puck or you can hold your territory and have a dallas player walk right by you unencumbered for a high danger scoring chance.
The reason the flames are playing a perimeter game is they don't have the skill or speed to break down the dallas defensive scheme is Dallas' zone.
When you don't collapse to the front of the net, you get scored on like Oleksiak did in OT when Gaudreau was no longer between him and the net.
This is where the eye test augments the possession statistics. The discrepancy in zone time or events may not appear huge but the practical application of that time and those events is.
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